Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Happy birthday to <a href="https://spore.social/tags/biochemist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biochemist</span></a> Marie Maynard Daly (1921-2003), 1st Black woman to earn a PhD in <a href="https://spore.social/tags/chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chemistry</span></a> in the US! She made important research contributions to our understanding of the biochemisty of the cell nucleus & cardiovascular issues & the chemistry of histones & protein synthesis. She established that “no bases other than adenine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine were present in appreciable amounts” in DNA - 🧵<br><a href="https://spore.social/tags/womenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/BlackInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histmed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histmed</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a></p>